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The number of bushrangers declined in the 1870s due to better policing and improvements in rail transport and communication technology, such as telegraphy. The last major phase of bushranging occurred towards the end of the decade, epitomised by the Kelly gang in Victoria, led by Ned Kelly, Australia's best-known bushranger and outlaw. Although ...
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The Bushranger, or the Last Crime is a 1854 Australian stage play. It debuted in Sydney in April 1854. [1] The play was about a fictitious bushranger, Charles Graves, and included "a grand series of equestrian feats, bare backed riding." [2]
Howe then became the leader of the bushrangers, and although two of the gang were caught and executed, many robberies ensued. In February 1817 two more bushrangers were shot and another captured, and in the following month Howe left the party accompanied only by an Aboriginal girl. On one occasion, finding the military close on his heels, he ...
One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police. Kelly was born and raised in rural Victoria, the third of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died in 1866, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household.
He was hanged at Brisbane Gaol on 16 August at 8am. The government reportedly brought people of his tribe down to Brisbane to witness the execution. He was accompanied to the scaffold by Reverend J. K. Black. Campbell wept as he was brought from his cell. His last words were said in response to a farewell from one of his gaolers.
Articles relating to bushrangers, originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term had evolved to refer to those who took up " robbery under arms " as a way of life, using the bush as their base.
Patrick Kenniff (28 September 1865 – 13 January 1903) was an Australian bushranger who roamed western Queensland, Australia, with his brother James Kenniff (1869–1940). ). They were primarily cattle thieves, but the brothers were found guilty of murder and Patrick was hanged in Boggo Road Gaol in 1